Word: idea
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Bolsheviks" Senator Watson has discovered in the Federal Trade Commission are against all government--i.e., that they are Anarchists. Lenin, who consistently anathematizes the "bourgeois," says they are the Anarchists; but Lenin's view does not count. His war-against the Anarchists of Russia is of no significance; his idea of Bolshevism as a paternal pervasive government--the antithesis of no government at all--is neither here nor there; what does Lenin know about Bolshevism? Finally, Senator Watson accuses on Mr. Johann G. Ohsol of being "a soviet of the most virulent type." Since when was it a crime...
...swear at his servants." Before his death he had established a theatre, supplied it with comedies, and contributed masterpieces of poetry, and essays. His plays are of universal interest due to his extensive travels. It was while he was a student at Oxford that he first conceived the idea "how splendid it would be to take a place among the authors." The Dramatic Club's production will be the first time that one of his plays have been staged in America, as far as can be learned from the records...
...metropolis points the way. In such a fashion should every city, town and village drive home to its representatives the idea that the majority must rule. The objection of many who decry chronological isolation is answered by those communities and industrial organizations which had daylight saving ordinances of their own in pre-war times and suffered not at all from the experience. Let us stand solidly behind Boston and Massachusetts in any action insuring for us those innumerable benefits which we have enjoyed during the past two summers...
...seems to me that the halls of learning are not a fit place in which "to offer incense to the God of Nicotine." In some universities smoking in the university buildings is forbidden. I commend this idea to the Faculty and student body as one worthy of adoption here. CHARLES W. T. WELDON...
...prevalent picture of a modern missionary in the mind of the average educated man is the idea of a long-haired individual, with a Bible, standing under a palm tree trying to "convert the heathen." Many people have a strong antagonism to the work of missions, and believe that people in foreign countries are happier without than with the missionary...